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Poll Rankings: First Coaches Poll released, Villanova lone Big East representative

The Wildcats are the only member of the Big East Conference to be in the first edition of the 2014-15 USA TODAY Coaches Poll

By Christopher Novak
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We're so very close to the college basketball season, and another indicator was the revealing of the 2014 USA TODAY Coaches Poll on Thursday morning. The Villanova Wildcats are the only members of the Big East Conference to be included, with the other nine members on the outside looking in for now. Will that be the case for most of the season? Time will tell.

RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS 1ST PLACE VOTES
1 Kentucky 29-11 785 24
2 Arizona 33-5 746 3
3 Duke 26-9 715 2
4 Wisconsin 30-8 706 3
5 Kansas 25-10 654 0
6 North Carolina 24-10 598 0
7 Florida 36-3 568 0
8 Virginia 30-7 519 0
9 Louisville 31-6 507 0
10 Texas 24-11 479 0
11 Wichita State 35-1 471 0
12 Villanova 29-5 439 0
13 Gonzaga 29-7 423 0
14 Iowa St. 28-8 323 0
15 Connecticut 32-8 292 0
16 Virginia Commonwealth 26-9 259 0
17 San Diego State 31-5 251 0
18 Michigan State 29-9 241 0
19 Oklahoma 23-10 237 0
20 Ohio State 25-10 223 0
21 Nebraska 19-13 156 0
22 Southern Methodist Univ. 27-10 149 0
23 Michigan 28-9 139 0
24 Syracuse 28-6 128 0
25 Iowa 20-13 56 0

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